BETHANIA HOSPITAL Is a witness of the Care of the CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF LAHORE for the sick and suffering. May it serve always as a place of Compassionate Care and Healing. Brief History of Betnania Hospital is "Bethania today is a 215 bed front-line and referral hospital, providing Medical and Surgical Services".
Behind this beautiful and admirable statement is a long and a difficult History which BETHANIA has traversed, to be, what it is TODAY. The founder of Bethania Hospital, Fr. Ligori, a Catholic missionary, while serving in Sialkot during 1950's found sick persons everywhere and especially those with tuberculosis, who had neither information nor resources, to get the treatment. Moreover, Sialkot, through being a thickly populated district lacked public health services. Fr. Ligori felt that 'had' to do something to save so many lives; and thus on 4th August 1964 set up a small clinic and a dispensary with the intentions of making it a Hospital. Fr. Ligori's commitment earned the respect and support of so many friends, who made it possible to buy some land to raise a proper clinic and dispensary.
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